This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala performed the Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain" clip, so that hundreds of millions of viewers remember the sixth generation of Shanghai Peking Opera House Yang Zirong Fu Xiru. From March 20th to 21st, the modern Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain" starring Fu Xiru will be performed as the opening performance of the 12th Oriental Famous Drama Month, recreating the heroic style. At the same time, Fu Xiru's other new work "Changing People" also began today's landing rehearsals, from Yang Zirong, a bandit hero lurking in Weihu Mountain, to Fang Meng'ao, an underground party member lurking in the Kuomintang Air Force, Fu Xiru explored a set of character shaping methods from inheritance to innovation.
Pictured: Yang Zirong, played by Fu Xiru, is officially pictured
Yang Zirong: From symbolization to humanization
Since taking over the inheritance banner of the Shangjing guanjia drama "Wise Tiger Mountain" in 2009 and touring dozens of cities in 11 years, Fu Xiru has experienced the intergenerational transformation of Peking Opera audiences. What impressed him most was that in the past performances, especially in northern cities, many elderly audiences came to look for memories, and many times when the voice was opened on the stage, the stage was sung, and he could often see the crystal tears under the stage. Over the years, the theater has become more and more new, and the audience is mainly young and middle-aged, "Our "Wise Tiger Mountain" is like "Infernal Affairs", and the new audience also watches it very energetically. ”
In the course of the tour, Fu Xiru walked into revolutionary holy places, such as Jinggang Mountain, Zha Di Cave, Hongqi Canal, etc., to listen to the stories of the revolutionary descendants and walk through the places where the martyrs fought. He said: "They can't be without fear, confusion, and wandering, but the power of revolutionary faith has overcome the weaknesses of human nature, and it has brought me one step closer emotionally and to the characters I have created."
Pictured: Stills of the Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain" Official picture
When he first started playing Yang Zirong, the image of the lonely hero was symbolic, and he toured again and again, and Fu Xiru's performance level had two more words: walking the heart. If it is said that in the past, singing "Communists always obey the party's call" was based on skill, now whenever he sings here, tens of millions of Communists will come to mind the scene of tens of millions of Communists going forward and forging ahead, "The four words of Communists are no longer the loud and full of the past, but the singing method full of affection and admiration, although there is less applause, but the communication with the audience's heart and heart is closer." ”
Fang Meng'ao: From homogenization to personalization
On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party, the Peking Opera "Changing People" is another exploration of Shangjing on the basis of "No War in Peking Ping" to open up the theme of modern Peking Opera and carry forward the red culture. Successively starring in red-themed dramas such as "Wise Tiger Mountain", "Shipwreck Night", and "Dawn of the Bath", Fu Xiru has a deep accumulation when playing Fang Meng'ao. But new questions also arise, modern dramas do not have stylized actions to assist the audience to distinguish, and how will the characters in each play be distinguished?
What Fu Xiru was most afraid of hearing was, how did Yang Zirong come out again? How can there be the shadow of Fan Wenhua in "Dawn of Fire"? In order not to make the middle-aged male characters in each play blurred, Fu Xiru did his homework, starting from their living environment and professional experience, and portrayed the characters in detail.
Picture: Fu Xiru has done his homework for each role Official picture
Fang Meng'ao and Yang Zirong are both wearing coats, how to distinguish between appearances? Fang Meng'ao is dressed in an air force cape, and he must be a handsome gentleman who stays in the country, Yang Zirong wears a bandit's cotton coat, with a flying and sloppy atmosphere, and the tone of the character is completely different. Fu Xiru analyzed that "Wise Tiger Mountain" has been acting for decades, each generation of Yang Zirong is based on Tong Xiangling's teacher Yang Zirong, although "Changing People" has the basis of the TV series "Peking No War", the director and screenwriter have tried their best to let Fu Xiru not be influenced by Fang Meng'ao, played by Liu Ye, and must reshape a Fang Meng'ao in Peking Opera, and the size of the grasp depends on Fu Xiru's own skills.
Fu Xiru recalled that when he played Mei Lanfang in "Beard", some fans directly called out that they wanted to marry him, and replied embarrassedly: Ten years late. As a post-80s generation, he increasingly felt the burden on his shoulders, and when he participated in the third China Peking Opera Star Exhibition in Beijing at the end of last year, many horns of his age did not dare to take the title of "artist" and called themselves "primary school students". One expert made no secret of it: You are elementary school students, what about the next generation of people? If you don't take responsibility, how can you let the people behind you follow your example? Honor is not only an honor, but also a pressure and responsibility, so far, Fu Xiru, who won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the Magnolia Award, deeply understood this sentence. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)